Optical Dispenser

Under minimal supervision, this role measures pupil distance and bridgewidth, adjusts eyeglass frames, and assists patients in selecting optical items to conform with corresponding optical prescriptions and established procedures.

• Assist patients with optical selections.
• Recommend and display various designs, colors, and shapes of eyeglass frames available and compatible to patients' prescriptions and facial features.
• Quote prices from fee schedules.
• Neutralize spectacles with a lensometer and perform measurements with a pupilometer, distometer, and other progressive optical measuring devices.
• Record frame, lens specification, and other related items such as non-prescribed dark glasses and cleaning fluids.
• Examine glasses received from the laboratory to ensure conformity with the prescription.
• Verify the prescription with a lensometer.
• Modify lenses to fit frames and adjust frames to fit patients' facial features with hand tools and related equipment as required.
• Repair and adjust lens frames as requested by patients using standard hand tools and related equipment.
• Order or fabricate lost pairs of eyeglasses, including using an automatic lens edging unit, hand edger, lens layout maker, and lens tinting unit.

Lens analyzer, lensometer, distometer, pupilometer, hand edger, automatic edger, pattern maker, layout marker, and optical hand tools used to adjust metal and plastic frames.

• American Board of Opticianry (ABO) Certification plus (1) year recent experience or two (2) years equivalent experience under the direction of a Licensed Optician, Optometrist, or Ophthalmologist performing Optometry Dispenser work.
• Ability to use Humphrey Lens Analyzer, conventional lensometer, pupilometer, distometer, progressive lens measuring devices, hand edger, salt-pan, lens tinting unit, automatic pattern maker unit, automatic lens edging unit, and lens layout procedures.
• Ability to work effectively with the public.
• Ability to follow oral and/or written instructions.
• Ability to correctly measure for, prepare order, and fit ophthalmic eyeglass lenses of all types, including cataract and progressive power lenses.
• Ability to adjust and correctly fit metal and plastic eyewear frames.